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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: prototypes required ?
Keywords: printf stdargs prototypes
Message-ID: <15973@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 90 07:37:11 GMT
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In article <27098@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>I still find it hard to believe that someone would not test something
>as basic as vprintf (or at least vfprintf---in my implementation, all
>the printf routines eventually call vfprintf).  This is sort of like
>sending a car to the dealer and forgetting to put in an engine.  Surely
>*someone* would notice before selling the thing?

One untested library function is nothing at all. I've seen a whole
compiler that didn't work. Version 5.22 of HP-UX (probably others,
but that's the one I know about for sure) had an F77 compiler that
generated grossly incorrect assembler. The assembler gagged on
EVERYTHING I tried. Obviously nobody had run the F77 compiler.

						Bill Poser